DINOSAUR! DIANOSAUR! Choose you fav-o-rite DINOSAUR! rowr rowr

Sorry if you're into arcane dinosaurs but there's like hundreds of dinosaurs.

Apatosaurus and brontosaurus are the same dinosaur!!

The ones Jesus hangs out with in the Bible.

The poll doesn't close until May? Talk about a long game.

STEG A MA SARZ

this is what they now think Velociraptor looked like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Velociraptor_dinoguy2.jpg/757px-Velociraptor_dinoguy2.jpg

Per thread title, I would like to vote for the Dianosaur. Do you think it'll ever get together with the Samosaur? They have such chemistry.

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper851/stills/438d52992f859-82-1.jpg

Dude Abbott you picked some hell of top end dinosaurs, I can't choose

allosaur is like a mini-T Rex/big velociraptor, right?

Tricera Tops, the clue is in the name

What do you call a dinosaur with no eyes?!

diplodocus = http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/images/diplodocus_big.jpghttp://www.swg1.net/encyclo/images/jar_jar_binks.jpg

Oh my, I didn't mean for this poll to end in May. Means I'll get a flashback surprise at the end of spring semester though. "God, this thread looks great! I love dinosaurs. OH MY GOD I DID THAT!"

They're all so good. Take stegosaurus. Some totally boss T Rex is all gonna chomp on it and steg slowly shuffles around. "Wanting to eat my delicious body, eh? SPIKES FOR YOU!" TAIL IN FACE.

ian OTM, also J. looks vaguely velociraptoresque in that photo

Triceratops, but with Stegosaurus in second place. I kind of wish that there was a dinosaur that was halfway between the two. I'd probably make one up myself if I were a Victorian paleontologist.

T. Rex's downfall is his absolutely silly-billy arms.

T. Rex's downfall is his absolutely silly-billy arms.

-- Abbott, Monday, December 10, 2007 4:19 PM (Monday, December 10, 2007 4:19 PM) Bookmark Link

i heard it was a sycamore tree.

You cannot prevent sycamore tree if you cannot push it away with your two-fingered popsicle stick arms.

Sorry if you're into arcane dinosaurs but there's like hundreds of dinosaurs.

Yes but that makes this like a "What's your favorite car: Ford or Toyota?" poll...

Triceratops isn't "close enough" to Styracosaurus to get my vote. Not that I'm going with Styracosaurus for sure or anything. Good thing I WE have til May.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/The_Slider.jpg

These are the classic (most recognizable) dinosaurs, the St. Franceses of Assisi to the styracosaurus's St. Fergna the White.

Maybe by May all of the ones not listed here will have become extinct, anyway.

http://www.sitevip.net/gifs/dinosaur/2377_animado.gifhttp://www.sitevip.net/gifs/dinosaur/2391_animado.gif

yah, my friend got mad at me once because he was mega-into dinosaurs when he was a kid and he said that brontosaurus was a MYTH the skeleton they found was actually apatosaurus but they couldn't find the head so they slapped on some other dino's head and i said that was nonsense and of course there are brontosauruses

but apparently he's right and there is no such thing as brontosaurus. apatosaurus is almost the same but has a weird skull

i couldn't decide, so i picked allosaur as a compromise :(

i come home at night to a dinosaur that i feel nothing for

Pterodactyl is the best one, yes?

http://logo.cafepress.com/nocache/7/97217.564167.jpg

http://jitcrunch.cafepress.com/jitcrunch.aspx?bG9hZD1ibGFuayxibGFuazoxMDBfRi5qcGd8bG9hZD1MMCxodHRwOi8vaW1hZ2VzLmNhZmVwcmVzcy5jb20vaW1hZ2UvNjg5NjEzMF80MDB4NDAwLmpwZ3x8c2NhbGU9TDAsMzAyLDQ2OCxXaGl0ZXxjb21wb3NlPWJsYW5rLEwwLEFkZCw3NiwxNHxsb2FkPW1hc2ssYmxhbms6MTAwX0ZfbWFzay5qcGd8Y29tcG9zZT1ibGFuayxtYXNrLE1hc2ssMCwwfGNwPXJlc3VsdCxibGFua3xzY2FsZT1yZXN1bHQsMCw0ODAsV2hpdGV8Y29tcHJlc3Npb249OTV8

http://objectiveministries.org/creation/fathersonpterosaur.png

apatosaurus is almost the same but has a weird skull and directed "the forty-year-old diplodocus who has never bred"

http://objectiveministries.org/creation/adamevepterosaur.jpg

I saw part of an animated movie a while back where meteors came and dinosaurs were fleeing and a young dino with some proto-simians living on its back joined a kind of horrific forced march out of the burning wasteland: it was surprisingly hardcore. Except kind of distracting because some new dinosaur would come along and start talking and I'd be all like "that's not a DINOSAUR, that's RUBY DEE."

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/pterodactyl1.jpg
http://www.zandoria.com/images/Kong-pterodactyl.jpg

Anyone who votes for anything other than Pterodactyl is an asshole.

xpost HA

Was this Disney's "DINOSAUR", nabisco?

http://image.comicvine.com/uploads/vol/7000/6684/6684-47680-1-x-men-adventures-ii_400.jpg

If I could have a pet pterodactyl, I would no longer need dreams as they'd all have come true.

yeeeeeeeeah pterodactyl!

pterodactyls seem like they may have been the meanest of the dinosaurs

http://www.transformersontheshelf.com/images/history_dinobots.jpg

oh man

no Swoop, no cred unfortch

xpost - I don't know, maybe. It mostly seemed like an allegory to teach children about Cambodia or the Lost Boys in Sudan or something.

http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/DevilDinosaurOmnibusHC.jpg

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0015277/

Littlefoot's Mother: Well, we all stick to our own kinds. The three-horns, the spike-tails, the swimmers, the flyers... we never do anything together.
Littlefoot: Why?
Littlefoot's Mother: Because we're different. It's always been that way.

OMG RACDISTST

GOD THAT MOVIE WILL MAKE ME CRY FOR FUCKING EVER PLZ DO NOT START QUOTING THAT MOVIE

get over it.

http://www.dinoriders.com/Desktop%20BG%202%20(640%20x%20480).jpg

holy shit, dino riders

^^^^
hell fucking yeah

Ok, not to get TOO arcane but some serious winners are missing!

Previously mentioned Styracosaurus is a big fave! He is like if the Triceratops was more of a badass.

http://members.tripod.com/~Dinosauria/styracosaurus.jpg

Then there's the other side of the coin, the Protoceratops, who is Triceratops's little, more mobile, small sibling.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Protoceratops_BW.jpg

And don't forget the Parasaurolophus, made famous by Land Before Time (Ducky) and Denver the Last Dinosaur.

http://www.lakepowell.net/sciencecenter/Parasaurolophus.jpg

Also, there is one of my other faves, the Pachycephalosaurus. The ram of yore. Their skulls were like a foot thick!

http://www.geocities.com/anthrosaurs/P/Pachycephalosaurus_by_tavari.jpg

There was also a particularly nasty variant on the Ankylosaurus (not Anklyosaurus! A mistake I made for YEARS) that had a couple spikes on his tail instead of a big club. I bet he was nasty! I forget his name, though. The egg-eater you referred to is probably the Oviraptor. He's pretty cool. Another cool egg-eater is the Struthiomimus. I like that dude abit more because he's basically a giant ostrich. The Dilophosaurus is a total lame asshole who is only liked by people who've seen Jurassic Park. Real dinosaur fans know that he probably didn't have a frill neck or acid spit and is overall likea 3 out of 10 awesome-dinosaur-points.

dilophosaurus was cool, he had cool crests on his head

Rulons

Krulos: This tyrannical ruler of the Rulon Empire was responsible for conquering thousands of worlds. A frog alien who wears a domed exo-suit to stay in contact with water, Krulos is a powerful being who keeps his minions in line with his strength, ruthlessness, and nasty temper. He is always ready to plunge back into battle atop his pet T-Rex or Triceratops despite repeated failure (which he blames on his commanders). Krulos’s ultimate goal is to capture the S.T.E.P. and return to the future after destroying Questar and the Dino-Riders.

Rasp: One of Krulos’s three main commanders, Rasp heads up the vipers, a race of snake men who are physically weak but universally treacherous. Rasp is both a suck up and a smart aleck, pledging his loyalty to his “great and glorious leader” while muttering snarky remarks under his breath. He’s always trying to step over Hammerhead to become second-in-command. While never gutsy enough to challenge Krulos directly, Rasp would willingly stab him in the back given the chance.

Hammerhead: The head of the shark men in Krulos’s army, Hammerhead is probably the most competent of the three commanders. He’ll stay on Krulos’s good side because of his power, but he’s not afraid to stand up to his leader to a certain extent. Hammerhead is ambitious and has devised several inventive schemes on his own. The two people he hates more than anyone else are Rasp, who is always trying to steal their leader’s favor, and Yungstar, with whom he has an unexplained history.

Antor: This last Rulon commander leads the ant men and is generally the least competent of the bunch. Antor lacks the smarts, creativity, and charisma to advance beyond Rasp or Hammerhead to become the favorite of Krulos. Though he’s had his share of success in battle and would love more power in the Rulon army, he has to settle for venting his frustrations to his bone-headed soldiers. In the end, Antor has learned to keep quiet to avoid being throttled by his leader like his rival commanders.

Skate: He is the squeaky-voiced commander who serves Lord Krulos out of equal parts loyalty and fear. Without more of his kind to back him up, Skate can never quite rise to the same level of assertiveness as the main three commanders. If he’s not careful, then the others will have him take the fall for their own failures.

Krok: The only crocodile alien among Krulos’s minions. Krok’s an extremely loyal commander who won’t tolerate anyone talking back to his mighty leader. While he tends to obey Krulos completely, he’s a hands-on character willing to snatch whatever is at hand in order to advance the Rulon agenda. Krok is more effective paired with another commander than operating alone.

Lokus: Like Krok and Skate, this minor Rulon commander is a unique species on Prehistoric Earth. Lokus isn’t as strong as his more flashy associates, so he makes up for it by showing great attention and concern for whatever project Krulos assigns him. He knows as well as the others that his best chances for a promotion lie in capturing a Dino-Rider.

DIMETRODON WAS A SYNAPSID

x-post

the funny thing about the video release of the cartoon was that they had commercial breaks for other tyco toys on them.

yeah seriously dimetrodon was a "mammal-like reptile" not a dino!

DIFFERENTIATED TEETH; TEMPORAL FENESTRA

!= SAUR

also not dinosaurs:

pterosaurs (flying reptiles)
plesiosaurs (marine reptiles)

This is why I can't have nice things. :(

aww it's ok. they're all prehistoric scaly things.

heavens what did i just type

YOU ARE TURNING INTO RAGGETT. RUN.

http://bestanimations.com/Animals/Reptiles/Dinosaurs/Dinosaur-07-june.gif

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/ff/304px-3D-monster-maze-T-rex-2-steps-away.png

Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a late Cretaceous oddity recently uncovered in Madagascar by excavators who named the beast after Mark Knopfler, the lead singer of the group Dire Straits, their favorite music to dig by.

Masiakasaurus is an oddity, all right, its mouth bristling with those slightly hooked, forward-poking teeth; but, then, odd too are an elephant's trunk and tusks, and an elk's antler rack, and a peacock's tail.

barney having sex with dino.jpg

http://terrythepterodactyl.com/myPictures/TERRY.gif

Allosaurus, because it is all sauruses.

I kind of wish coelocanth was an option, though, because it is one of Capt. Haddock's favorite insults.

TRICERATOPS obv

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ yes x 100000000000000000000000000

i was at a craft fair art thing last wkend and someone there was selling all these awesome cb radio cards from times gone by (sort of like old-skool fashioned facebook maybe) and one of them had triceratops on them! so i got it! plus i was with one of my bandmates (band is named triceratreet0ps) and we were all yaaay!
xpost :)

triceratops is best. i didn't know everyone loved triceratops. otoh how can you not?

our kid has entered the dinosaur phase. dinosaurs are now a mainstay of old mcdonald's farm.

Chorus:
My name is stegosaurus,
I’m a funny looking dinosaur.
For on my legs are many bony plates,
And on my tails there’s more.

Verse 1:
My front two legs are very short.
My back two legs are long.
My body’s big, my head is very small
I’m put together wrong!

Chorus:

Verse 2:
Sometimes another dinosaur comes by
And wants to fight
I don’t use fists, I use my tail
It has four sharp, sharp spikes.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j182/swiftian/041207/pelosi_swiftboat2.jpg

triceratops, ftw. it was my fave as a kid and the one i used to always draw.

i remember a picture in a school book on dinos which had a triceratops ramming into the leg of a trex, awesome.

I Love Dinosaurs board?

I'm repping for dimetrodon, I don't care what they say.

I HAS A SAIL

http://www.copyrightexpired.com/earlyimage/fjohn/series1/F_John_Series_1_Dimetrodon_card_27.jpg

Was this Disney's "DINOSAUR", nabisco?

yes, that's disney's dinosaur. great start, peters out once the dinos begin their bataan death march, but the animation is great, and it's the only children's movie that devotes an extensive sequence to lemur mating rituals.

The BEST kind of mating rituals.

So I have two tickets to this Walking With Dinosaurs thing in a couple weeks. I'd totally invite Abbott to make the trip over to Portland and use my other ticket but I have an ACTUAL DATE to this instead.

Anyway this looks like the most awesome thing ever: http://www.dinosaurlive.com/

rip gay dinosaur gif

I voted for triceratops because I've always associated them with my name. ("cera" sounds EXACTLY like "Sara!")

Try Sara - TOPS!

michael ceratops

tri carrot tops

http://photos30.flickr.com/35174899_5c5364fd52_o.gif

http://photos30.flickr.com/35174899_5c5364fd52_o.gif

http://photos30.flickr.com/35174899_5c5364fd52_o.gif

i dont like the way this guy is looking at me:

http://www.geocities.com/anthrosaurs/P/Pachycephalosaurus_by_tavari.jpg

http://objectiveministries.org/creation/adamevepterosaur.jpg

I want a pterodactyl BJ!

best thread ever.

i voted for diplodocus because i drew an awesome picture of one in third grade and it was totally on the wall in the hallway by my classroom for like half the school year. also, no option for brachiosaurus, who could breathe underwater through their heads!

Apatosaurus and brontosaurus are the same dinosaur!!

not quite -- brontosaurs are a specific species of apatosaurus. But pterodactyls are actually NOT DINOSAURS!!!!

oh wait latebloomer already got that

brontosaurus = apatosaurus

In 1877, Othniel Charles Marsh published notes on his discovery of Apatosaurus ajax. He followed this in 1879 with a description of another, more complete, dinosaur specimen. He speculated that the latter specimen represented a new genus and named it Brontosaurus excelsus. In 1903, it was discovered that Brontosaurus excelsus was in fact an adult Apatosaurus and the name Apatosaurus, having been published first, was deemed to have priority as the official name; Brontosaurus was relegated to being a synonym. In the 1970s, it was proven that the traditional "Brontosaurus" image known to all was, in fact, an Apatosaurus excelsus with a Camarasaurus head incorrectly placed on its body.

Fuckin Spinosaurus.

Triceratops, even though I found out the horns were likely not used in combat....

NO BRACHIOSAURUS NO CREDIBILITY

Not so many thousand years before
these old rocks were the bones of the haplocanthosaur
Old, Old rocks
It was as tall as a house,
May have been as gentle as a mouse...
Bare bones are petrified
Later they are classified
A skeleton may indicate,
but imagination animates
The mind's eye does need to see
the fluid grace and subtlety
of animals fitted perfectly
to a world not like the one we see

The bones of a flying animal now called the pterosaur
have been found a hundred miles
from the presumed seashore
Old,Old rocks
One kind had teeth like a whale's
One kind had a hair covering
One kind would've been 37 feet from wing to wing...
Bare bones are petrified
Later they are classified
A skeleton may indicate,
but imagination animates
The mind's eye does need to see
the fluid grace and subtlety
of animals fitted perfectly
to a world not like the one we see

Here's the sort of bird that we don't see
In some of the books it's not treated
quite respectfully
Old, Old rocks Old, Old rocks
Has the short end of the stick been given archaeopteryx?

There's no Micropachycephalosaurus ??

<img src="http://www.freehosting.hostrave.com/p/thegnarly80s/dinosaucers.jpg";>

DINOSAUCERS, obv.

I HATE NUILX

http://www.freehosting.hostrave.com/p/thegnarly80s/dinosaucers.jpg

dimetrodon or that kind of triceratops with the horns growing out of his shield

anybody remember that toy Dino Riders?

i fink this is a thread wot needs reviving

http://www.emerson.k12.nj.us/staff/rmkelly/custom/DinosaurWQ/Images/Anklyosaurus/Ankylosaurus2.gif
sup

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-388115-1106743423.jpg

sleep otm, I just voted for that one

It's an anklyokitten!

The adorable reptiles thread! (pics)

Stegosaurus was the joint. They used to have cool statues of a Stegosaurus and a Triceratops outside the National Museum of Natural History. Best damn monuments in all of Washington.

it just took my vote, i'm sure i already voted. hmm

oh by the way Ste, there is a glitch in the polls.

Found him!
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ZooArt/UncleBeazley/images/cover_Beazley.jpg
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ZooArt/UncleBeazley/

I voted again. In fact I vote every time this thread reappears.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13772-t-rex-confirmed-as-great-granddaddy-of-all-birds-.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news3_head_dn13772

Oh good, I have like three weeks to decide.

voted again. I loves ALLLL the dianosaurs.

My son chose Allosaurus. He is obsessed with dinosaurs, so his opinion bears more weight than mine.

Diplodocus (pron. dipp-ler-doh-cuss) was always my favourite, and gets my vote.

It's strange though. I loved dinosaurs when I was a lad, and I knew all about them. Then I grew up a bit, and didn't think about them for like, 25 years. And then I recently started hanging out with a 3 yr old and rediscovered dinos...and there are loads more now than there were when I was little! Which feels counterintuitive, to say the least.

I'd never even heard of apatosaurus though, and nowadays she seems to be one of the big names. She even gets to be in Harry's bucket!

Apatosaurus is kind of The Artist Formerly Known As Brontosaurus. It was always a big-shot but there's kind of been a rebrand since we were kids.

This is totally one of the best threads ever btw, from the title onwards.

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/dude42/pterodactyl_porn.JPG

I want to vote for the Vegasaurus.

no brachiosaurus!?

xxpost oh goodness!

Scelidosaurus seems to be more popular than he used to be too (discovered years ago, but never mentioned when I was little). Meanwhile, whither Iguanadon?

List of Dinosaurs

Begins with:

Aachenosaurus — actually a piece of petrified wood.

Great, thanks!

And another thing!

http://tv.cream.org/images2/moschops1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/MUJA_04.jpg/450px-MUJA_04.jpg

brontosaurus! for the burgers, of course.

http://www.dinosaurland.com/images/packy.jpg
PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS!

mccain.jpg

Me at 14 and my brother and the HEADLESS BIPEDAL DINOSAUR rowr rowr

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3746/dinosaurrb1.jpg

wow. you look A LOT like me at 14.

Did you wear Mormon summer uniform on display here: knee-length denim shorts?

well i wasn't a mormon so much as completely retarded fashion-wise, but sure

haha there is very little difference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9AVTlvbhKM

wau

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4471179

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

These results are simply INCREDIBLE!

INCREDIOBLE!

Worthy winner, incidentally.

I just like how the guy in the pic above the poll is waving to get your attention.

http://blogs.ign.com/Mattius_Carl/2008/05/11/89445/

lolololol

M must have missed the results of this poll after reviving it repeatedly and voting a jillion times.

Surprisingly strong showing from anklyosaurus.

http://www.thedinosaurmuseum.com/acatalog/dinosaur-knit-hat.jpg

I would like this dinosaur hat pls.

People say pterodactyl but really they mean pteranodon.

Let's call the whole thing off!

(sorry, prehistoric joke...)

clicked on this thread to vote TRICERATOPS but thank god it's already won

if I could go back in time to see just one event, it might be to see a triceratops take on a t-rex

Almost bought that hat for my daughter at the Natural History Museum the other week, but eventually plumped for the triceratops glove puppet instead:
http://static.nhmshop.co.uk/images/300x300/a07559-28.jpg

if I could go forward in time to see just one event, it might be to see a cloned cyborg triceratops take on a robotic ninja t-rex

I think you just leaked the plot to Jurassic Park 4

to be followed by Jurassic Park 5: Lost In Space

Favourite underrated prehistoric animal has gotta be be these bad boys, the Titanis walleri:

http://nicholnl.wcp.muohio.edu/DingosBreakfastClub/BioMech/ImagesAtlas/Titanis_Horse.jpg

I like that dianosaur head-eating hat.

GOd even 2.3 years later I'm still making that stupid typo.

princess dianosaur

What kind of a dinosaur would Jonathan Swift be? This is important, guys. You have to give a reason.

My first thought is a fossilized poop, but that's not really a kind of dinosaur (the guy liked poop).

would have made an exemplary ilxor

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/dinosaur-fossil-could-be-most.html

SOME DINOSAURS r TOO PERFECT 4 THIS WORLD